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What are my best healthy eating habits?

This is where I get to talk about my excessively boring lifestyle dedicated to consistency and routine.

Yes. It’s all about the triplets : Discipline, Dedication and Determination…and obviously their loner coousin, Hydration.

No. I don’t fall for the charms of their evil uncle, Temptation.

I told you, I am boring when it comes to my healthy eating habits.

I don’t stay away from anything in particular. It’s all about moderation. And that has always worked.

This is coming from someone who went through a phase riddled with anorexia and bulimia, so trust me, it is possible to reach Buddhahood in terms of healthy eating habits.

I have never been one to indulge either in sweets or in fried snacks. From hating them to liking them to finding a middle ground; I have tasted every phase until I reached a space when I could relate to them from a healthy point of view.

I am strict about WHEN I eat more than WHAT I eat.

A litre and half of water between 4:00 am and 7:00 am. Aiming for three and a half litres by the end of the say. A cup of green tea at 5:00 am. A workout at 6:30 am. Breakfast at 8:30 am, a cup of herbal tea at 9:00 am, lunch at 1:00 pm, a cup of black tea at 4:00 pm and dinner at 8.00 pm. Fruits in between at 11:00 am and 5:00 pm. Some snacks if I get too hungry in between.

Breakfast is usually varieties of idlis, dosas, uttappas, poha, upma and a typical desi pasta on some Sundays.

Lunch is rice, sambar/dal/pappu/kozhambu/rasam and two varieties of curries. Pulaos, dalchas, biryanis,puris and choles, fancy curries walk in and out of the meal plate as and when I want a twist in the palate.

Roti for dinner with leftovers, even if the world thinks roti and rasam don’t go together with beans poriyal. I really don’t give a f***.

My health. My choice. It’s healthy, well-balanced and home-made. Enough said.

I hit the bed by 9:30 pm and it’s repeat and rinse. Day in and day out.

I don’t eat out. Take out is a rarity.

I have never gotten bored. I doubt if I ever will. I am exceptionally happy with my health as I have no major issues except some related to menopause. I have maintained the same weight for 25 years since I was 20.

It only means my seemingly impossible and boring routine is working for my body and mind. And I don’t intend to change it for any fad or fashion that is currently trending.

I might live like a fossil but aren’t fossils always valued best long after their life and time is past?